Originally posted by shiv
Do you use a pasta sauce or do you make your own pasta sauce
Make my own. The pre-made stuff is usually not that good.
Tell anyone's nonna that you buy Ragu for your spaghetti and you'll get an ass chewing. You might even get slapped on the hand or back a few times, too.
Originally posted by shiv
Do you buy cake mix or do you actually buy the ingredients for it
Buy the ingredients for it. But this is splitting hairs. Do you make your own vegetable oil or do you purchase it? It requires far more to make your own vegetable oil than it does to make a cake from the ingredients.
Originally posted by shiv
Do you make your own pasta from scratch like a chef
Sure have and it's awesome and delicious.
Originally posted by shiv
Do you bake your own bread
Yes and I don't use a bread maker. I made a how-to video for making croissants. It takes about 4 hours the way I make them. They are delicious, though.
Originally posted by shiv
Do you make your own chocolate
No. Nor do I make my own cocoa powder, which is the much harder step. Nor has anyone for hundreds of years. You buy that from a specialist.
Originally posted by shiv
Do you pickle your own vegetables or do you buy pickles
I pickled them for over 10 years including growing them in a garden and raising them. Best pickled okra is still the okra that I grew myself and pickled.
Originally posted by shiv
Do you grind your own spices and grind your own spice rub
You do it when you grind peppercorns onto your food. And I assemble my own BBQ rubs.
Do you grow your own spices and pulverize them after dehydrating them?
Originally posted by shiv
Do you actually have time for all that?
Yes and no. I don't have time to grow stuff on cocoa farms or vegetable oil and processing farms.
Originally posted by shiv
The answer for most people is no.
According to the actual data, the answer is yes. Almost everyone is making their own food at home.
Originally posted by shiv
There are dishes I know kids today have no idea of.
That's true of literally every generation in human history. Your ancedote adds nothing.
Originally posted by shiv
Their parents just don't got the time.
That's not excuse. We live in the information age where we can find almost anything in seconds. Ignorance of food is not an excuse. Nor should it be required that parents teach their children obscure food stuff.
Originally posted by shiv
I'm seeing good quality unpolished unbalanced plain wholegrain rice become harder to find.
Sounds like you're just getting old and don't know how to use a computer. You can order a wider variety of foods, online, than you can buy at your local store. You have access to a larger variety of foods than ever before at amazing prices.
My favorite rice? Jasmine Rice from Thailand: a particular brand. It's the most fragrant of the rices and has a great flavor. The only place I can buy it is from places like Amazon. I buy 25lbs at a time. Lasts me a while.
Also, here's a photo of the layering on one of the batches of croissants I made:
https://i.imgur.com/VDuhHEa.png